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Vonnegut featured at annual read

Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” was the main attraction Saturday as the James Madison College hosted its seventh annual Marathon Book Reading. Students and faculty read the book cover-to-cover Saturday.

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Movement, meaning enrich unique dance performance

Throughout the years, Pilobolus has improvised and choreographed more than 100 works, and its performance Wednesday night at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall featured a selection of six of these works, some that were new in 2009 and another hailing from 1971, the year of Pilobolus’ conception.

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Performance to offer unique take on dance

About 25 performers will be debuting their talent of movement, dance and art at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in The Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Auditorium of Synder-Phillips Hall. One performance will be put on each day throughout the week through Sunday, with two concerts on Saturday.

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Native American author to visit MSU

Writer Diane Glancy will be speaking at 5 p.m. Monday in the North Conference Room (W449) of the Main Library.Glancy was born in 1941 of a Cherokee father and a German/English mother. As the author of “Asylum in the Grasslands,” “The Dance Partner” and others, her work has won many literary prizes, including the Native American Prose Award.

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Museum benefit showcases finest E.L. chocolatiers

More than 300 chocolate lovers united at the 21st annual Chocolate Benefit Party hosted by the MSU Museum. Starting as a small event inside the home of the museum’s former director, the benefit has evolved throughout the years into a large event that has been held at Kellogg Center for more than 15 years.

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Alumnus finds niche as NPR White House correspondent

MSU alumnus Don Gonyea’s passion for the news followed him from Detroit to Washington, D.C., where he is the National Public Radio correspondent in the White House. He came back to East Lansing this week to discuss his professional career in the School of Journalism’s annual lecture series.

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Alumni to lecture on journalism

To celebrate the MSU School of Journalism’s 100-year anniversary, the school is featuring speakers Don Gonyea of National Public Radio and Kathy Barks Hoffman of The Associated Press in a lecture entitled New Technology and Political Coverage at 4:30 p.m. today.

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Family drama relatable, odd

Regret, blame, addiction, betrayal and infidelity — no family is perfect, and the Weston family in Steppenwolf’s “August: Osage County” certainly is no exception.